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Avraham Soltes
… after week, he interwove the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at … love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American folksongs, Yiddish lullabies, and Hebrew melodies; to his creative …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of … acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new “rebirth” songs … Poland and Belarus (formerly Brest-Litovsk,Brisk De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In … early Hebrew poems in 1862 in Ha-Meliz , and several of his Yiddish poems in Kol Mevasser , shortly thereafter. In 1865 … five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish literature and theater. Click here to …
David Beyglman
… In 1912, he became the director of the Yitskhok Zanberg Yiddish Theater Company. In addition, he was affiliated with the Azazel and Ararat Yiddish Theaters centered in Lodz. In the winter of 1940, … concerts and theater shows staged in the House of Culture and in the sports hall of the ghetto’s gymnasium. In …
Platon Brounoff
… Conductor, arranger, and composer of Yiddish music. Born in Yelisavetgrad in Russia. In 1891, … songs, some of which he arranged for his choir. Composed Yiddish songs (see 'Song of the month,' March 2010 ). … Passport to Jewish Music: its History, Traditions and Culture. Additional biographical items about Brounoff can be …
Herman Svet
… Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and later switched to Yiddish. For a short period, he wrote articles for the Kiev Yiddish daily newspaper Di naye tsayt (The new times) in … Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in the Soviet Period (1968), Jewish Theater in …
Moses Beregovski
… established and directed the musical division of the Jewish Culture League in Kiev and served as the director until it … branch of the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences between the … Yidishe Folkslider , Beregovski’s second volume devoted to Yiddish folk song was complete and set to print in 1938 but …
Irene Heskes
… research included the compilation of a large collection of Yiddish theater music. She published many articles and books … , Jews in Music , The Resource Book of Jewish Music , Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895–1950 , and Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture . Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Kozinn, Allan. …
James Loeffler
… (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; … of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the …
Nikolai Kaufman
… psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but his children never learned them. Only my mother … alphabetically), performance ensemble/number of voices, culture (Sephardic or Ashkenazic), and holiday or occasion (religious or secular). The songs are in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Bulgaria. Also the extensive …